As we enter Memorial Day weekend, the season of celebrity commencement speeches is drawing to a close once again, and among the many loftier bits of rhetoric graduating seniors are bound to forget, our nation's elite speakers imparted some valuable life lessons.
Overly generic or even blatantly sexist career advice to women has come under fire of late, from others and on this blog. How did President Obama do addressing a group of young female graduates at Barnard's commencement?
President Barack Obama gave his commencement speech at Barnard College, and rather than make any big news, he mostly kept to the mix of light jokes and advice more typical of graduation speeches.
His address at his own alma mater, Northwestern University, scored high with us
Welcome to the Commencies, our awards for graduation speeches
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